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  • 61statistics — See vital statistics …

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  • 62Baseball statistics — Statistics play an important role in summarizing baseball performance and evaluating players in the sport. Since the flow of baseball has natural breaks to it, the game lends itself to easy record keeping and statistics. This makes comparisons… …

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  • 63Computational statistics — Statistics algorithms were one of the first uses of modern computers. Computational statistics, or statistical computing, is the interface between statistics and computer science. It is the area of computational science (or scientific computing)… …

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  • 64Medical statistics — Statistics in Medicine redirects here. For the journal, see Statistics in Medicine (journal). Medical statistics deals with applications of statistics to medicine and the health sciences, including epidemiology, public health, forensic medicine,… …

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  • 65History of statistics — Statistics arose, no later than the 18th century, from the need of states to collect data on their people and economies, in order to administer them. Its meaning broadened in the early 19th century to include the collection and analysis of data… …

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  • 66Founders of statistics — Statistics is the theory and application of mathematics to the scientific method including hypothesis generation, experimental design, sampling, data collection, data summarization, estimation, prediction and inference from those results to the… …

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  • 67European Union statistics — Statistics in the European Union are collected by Eurostat.Institutional statisticsArea and populationAs of 1 January 2006, the population of the EU was about 493 million people [ [http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?… …

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  • 68Basketball statistics — Statistics in basketball are kept to evaluate a player or a team s performance.Some statistics are * GP, GS: games played, games started * PTS: points * FGM, FGA, FG%: field goals made, attempted and percentage * FTM, FTA, FT%: free throws made,… …

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  • 69Tennis statistics — Statistics play an important role in summarizing tennis performance and evaluating players in the sport, both present and past. While not all statistics are known, this article tries to be comprehensive on major tournament wins for singles, same… …

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  • 70inferential statistics — Statistics which permit the researcher to demonstrate the probability that the results deriving from a sample are likely to be found in the population from which the sample has been drawn. They therefore allow sociologists to generalize from… …

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